Corn Bunting
Emberiza calandra
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 16,447
- Most observed in
- 🇪🇸 Spain
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The corn bunting (Emberiza calandra) is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae. This is a large bunting with heavily streaked buff-brown plumage. The sexes are similar but the male is slightly larger than the female. Its range extends from Western Europe and North Africa across to northwestern China.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Corn bunting”.